Orange · California

A thick slab of redwood, on a keyed trestle.

This redwood grew in Orange, California. The table has a thick live-edge redwood top, with a wide band of pale sapwood along one side, on a trestle base of solid redwood. We built three benches the same way.

Redwood trestle table with benches set outdoors among vineyard rows REDWOOD TRESTLE TABLE · STYLED SETTING
Register entry
Wood
Redwood
Where it grew
Orange, California
Became
A trestle dining table, with three benches

The build

A through tenon, locked with a key.

  1. In our shop

    The trestle

    Each leg is a wide redwood panel with pale posts at both edges and a notch cut along the bottom, so the posts stand as feet. A stretcher runs between the legs and passes through each one as a through tenon, locked on the outside by a square wooden key with a dark pin through it. The benches are built the same way.

    Close-up of the square wooden key with a dark pin, locking the through tenon on the outside of a redwood leg STYLED SETTING

Redwood, set outdoors

The redwood trestle table and benches on a deck above the ocean, among pines
Hands setting a board of grilled vegetables on the redwood table at an outdoor dinner under an oak
A hand along the pale sapwood live edge of the redwood top